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Adversity II

Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
Greek saying
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
T. E. Lawrence
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater one. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
William Hazlitt
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
Richard Nixon
Its not whether you get knocked down. Its whether you get up again.
Vince Lombardi
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Plutarch
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Heraclitus
Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
Nothing bad ever happens without equal or greater benefit in return.
Napoleon Hill
There is so much for us all to forgive that we shall never get it done without putting in a lot of practice. Every act of forgiveness is a raid on the kingdom of fear.
Neville Ward
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
Thomas Merton
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.
Helen Keller
It never pays to go looking for trouble; its too easy to find. Happiness won't have anything to do with a man that likes trouble. The moment a man stops looking for trouble, happiness will look for him.
Irving Bachellor
Our problems are man- made; therefore, they may be solved by man.
John F. Kennedy
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Sophocles
That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Nietzsche
The trick is not how well you deal with success but how well you deal with adversity.
W. Michael Blumenthal
Troubles are the context in which God makes himself visible.
Neal Cassady
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wilcox
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Seneca

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